• FunkyStuff [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    Wait, I’m Catholic, and the explanation of the mechanism of Salvation I learned (and I read more theology as a teen than I read theory now) is that the Crucifixion is a critical part of Salvation for all the living souls (fully agree with you on the Harrowing and all the previous souls), In the process of Jesus being crucified and killed, the Holy Ghost is spilled over all the earth and all those who accept it are saved; like a delicate flask of perfume being shattered and imbuing its scent on the surroundings. Do you remember where you read this?

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      Do you remember where you read this?

      Art history class lmao

      But also I haven’t been a practicing catholic in decades. Ironically, I’ve read more parts of the Bible as an atheist than I ever did as a believer.

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      I am from a USian church, so what I learned may be completely heretical, but what I was taught was that Jesus served the role of a sacrificial animal, but by being entirely flawless his sacrifice was final and forgave all sins? I dunno. No matter how specific they get in parallels with OT sacrifices, they remain fairly vague about how precisely it saves us.

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        If you’ve played the elder scrolls. Jesus’s is the divine logos of the world (to say he is the amaranth is wrong but also a decent inital grasping) and his sacrifice was a dragon break that changed the vector of the logos towards salvation and re-communion with God, this time as fully mature beings graced with knowledge.

        This post brought to you by Teilhard de Chardin

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        That also expresses the same meaning as what I said; the point is that Christ, by virtue of being fully divine, has an infinite amount of mercy and grace that, via the Passion, gets extended out to all of humanity like an olive branch (covenant) from the Father. I know the chud megapastors spam the verse a lot, but John 3:16 explains the idea, too.

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      Yes, this is correct, though you can add a few more levels of abstraction. (The logos of reality sacrificing itself and being remade anew, etc.)